Stuck in the Ikea car park, 250 jobs at stake in the Béziers region, 4,000 km of solidarity in Twingo: the main news in the region

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Stuck for more than two hours in the Ikéa parking lot

#MONTPELLIER This Saturday, January 11, 2025, with the work in the neighborhood and the crowds of this first weekend of sales, the network was saturated. Drivers were stuck in the Ikea parking lot all afternoon.
“I saw the moment when people were going to get in each other's faces,”says a man from Gard who was stuck from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“Around 7:45 p.m., they had the reflex to get people out through the entrance, that freed up the situation. It's a shame they didn't think of it before.” Everything was able to get back to normal.

Craftsmen up in arms against the Low Emission Zone

#MONTPELLIER “I advise craftsmen not to take on building sites in the city.” Christian Poujol, president of the The Hérault Chamber of Trades is up in arms against the ZFE (Low Emission Zone) which came into force on 1 January 2025 and is very critical of traffic conditions in the city. “With the ZFE, it has become untenable or they have to triple the price of construction sites to get by. And I'm not talking about the time lost in traffic jams…”

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He particularly regrets that his letters sent to the Métropole “to propose solutions” have remained unanswered. A survey of 10,000 craftsmen in the metropolis reveals that 88% are opposed to the ZFE. “Craftsmen work with vehicles that do not exist in a clean version. Or they are overpriced!”

A subsidiary of ECM Greentech sets up in the Béziers region

#BÉZIERS ECM Greentech will set up a subsidiary in Colombiers. The first works should be launched before the summer. A land agreement protocol has been signed with the community of communes. Thus, it is one of the leaders, in France, in the renewable low-carbon hydrogen sector that is about to set up in the Béziers region with the company Genvia.

This installation will create 250 jobs in the long term. ECM Greentech, which is based in Grenoble, specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial furnaces for the growth of photovoltaic silicon and in plant engineering.

Today's figure: 4,000

#LOZÈRE This is the distance in km that Pascale and Christian Bonicel, a retired couple of teachers, are preparing to travel in a Twingo as part of the Twing Raid. This solidarity rally will take them to the Moroccan High Atlas, which was hit by an earthquake in 2023.

They will take 10 kg of food, hygiene products and school kits. Two hundred and fifty crews will set off from Tuesday, February 25. Arrival scheduled for Thursday, March 6.

A69: the court is considering a suspension of work

#OCCITANIE The Toulouse administrative court is examining this Monday, January 13 at 10 a.m. the interim suspension application filed by opponents of the A9, the motorway between Castres and Toulouse, who are requesting that work be stopped until the appeal on the merits is deliberated. It had been filed in May 2023 to request the cancellation of environmental permits issued by the prefects, recalls the Dépêche du Midi.

Since then, the work has progressed well and the opening is scheduled for the end of the year. “This suspension of the worksite must allow the judges to take the time necessary to rule on the legality of this case. Justice can no longer be held hostage and be presented with a fait accompli” believes La Voie est libre, a collective of opponents of the A69.

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